Reading something that you wrote a long time ago can be either like meeting an old friend you always liked after a long time or like meeting an old lover. An unrestrained aha or a restrained awkwardness.
But both have something in common that time stands still for a second. That things have changed stare at you in the face. You notice new wrinkles near her eyes. He is on a fast forward to paunched middle agedness.
But you are surprised as to how much things have not actually changed. She still laughs the same, throwing her head back, and squinting her eyes and still talks of issues at her work as if there is some big conspiracy. His bad and mostly lewd jokes have gotten worse but you still can't resist laughing at them.
But whether it is aha on finding you agree more or an eek on finding you no longer do, what the reading of old and the meeting of old does is that both allows you to look back at you and how you were and how you are now.
And that is something precious in the daily shallowness of life which tends to seep in no matter what.
Here are four entries dating from years ago to now. Earliest ones are from the time when I didn't even have this blog and hence was sent in a group mail to my friends (and are frankly boring :-) ).
jayasankar.org - contains quotes from all over, but most probably ones which you have never read before, bookmarks of sites i frequent, and has everything about/by me online bookmarked.
teck.in/author/jay - (most) Tuesdays at teck.in will have an article by me focussed on the technology world though not limited to it.
anandtranslated - my translations of indian writer anand. is admittedly 'dry', so don't go for a smile and a hug.
